Fanni Schack

Fan­ni Schack, grown up in Hun­ga­ry, is a dan­cer, dance edu­ca­tor and Gy­ro­ki­ne­sis trai­ner. She com­ple­ted her stu­dies at the Uni­ver­si­ty for Mu­sic and Per­forming Arts in Frank­furt, ear­ning a BA in Dance with a fo­cus on con­tem­pora­ry dance. In 2023, she com­ple­ted her Mas­ter’s de­gree in Con­tem­pora­ry Dance Edu­ca­ti­on at the same in­sti­tu­ti­on.

As a free­lan­ce dan­cer, Fan­ni con­ti­nues to work and train in Frank­furt. She per­for­med with the Na­ni­ne Lin­ning Dance Com­pa­ny in “Re­qui­em“ (2011–2012) and col­la­bo­ra­ted with Tan­ja Brech­mann, Sven Gett­kant, Mi­cha­el Gross, and Ri­chard Ober­sche­ven, ex­plo­ring va­rious dance styles at the per­for­mance evening, “Collec­tiv:space“ in Frank­furt. Sin­ce 2014, Fan­ni has been tea­ching a wide ran­ge of groups, ai­ming to en­cou­ra­ge self-con­fi­dence, awa­reness, and a sen­se of com­mu­ni­ty through dance. Re­cent­ly, she has had op­por­tu­nities to teach dance at the Künst­ler*in­nen­haus Mou­son­turm, the Tanz­kon­gress in Mainz (2022), and the 20th-an­ni­ver­s­a­ry ce­le­bra­ti­on of the Hes­si­an Thea­ter Aca­de­my in Frank­furt (2023).

Fan­ni’s in­te­rest in mo­ve­ment is groun­ded in ex­plo­ring mo­ve­ment qua­li­ties through ac­tive sen­so­ry and so­ma­tic awa­reness. En­du­ran­ce in im­pro­vi­sa­ti­on and the trans­for­ma­ti­on of mo­ve­ments are key con­cepts in her work, with in­spi­ra­ti­on drawn from im­pro­vi­sa­ti­on tech­ni­ques such as Gaga. Ad­di­tio­nal­ly, du­ring her Mas­ter’s the­sis, syn­chro­ni­za­ti­on pro­ces­ses emer­ged as si­gni­fi­cant ele­ments. The­se now play an im­portant role in her tea­ching.

Sin­ce 2023, Fan­ni has been working as a lec­tu­rer at the Uni­ver­si­ty for Mu­sic and Per­forming Arts in Frank­furt and is a dance fa­ci­li­ta­tor at Staats­thea­ter Mainz.